What this is

Bold Efforts is where I write about work, life, and decision-making.

I’m interested in how people work, how organizations change, and how individuals make choices in a world shaped by AI, remote work, and long-term uncertainty. I don’t write about news, trends, or predictions. I write about ideas that stay useful over time.

Most essays here treat work as a system. Careers, companies, incentives, tools, culture, and personal trade-offs are deeply connected. Bold Efforts exists to think through those connections carefully and in public.

Who I am

I’m Kartik, founder of Polynomial Studio, a holding company and product studio building AI-driven businesses focused on the future of work.

For the past decade, I’ve worked across real estate, technology, startups, and corporate strategy. My work has centered on helping companies and individuals navigate change, make better long-term decisions, and adapt to shifts in how work is structured, where it happens, and what it demands from people.

Bold Efforts is where I step away from execution and write. It’s where I reflect on what I’m seeing, building, and learning, and try to make sense of the forces shaping modern work.

Why I write Bold Efforts

Most writing about work is reactive. Productivity advice, career tips, trend commentary, or opinions tied to the current news cycle.

That’s not what I’m trying to do here.

I write to explore fundamentals. How work fits into life. How decisions compound over time. How technology changes incentives before it changes behavior. And how people can design careers and lives that remain resilient as tools, markets, and organizations evolve.

The goal is not to tell you what to do next week. It’s to help you think better over the next decade.

Polynomial Studio and Fursa

Polynomial Studio is the company behind Bold Efforts. It’s where I build AI-native products designed around how people actually work, not how systems assume they do.

The first product from Polynomial Studio is Fursa, an AI-powered job search platform that indexes roles directly from company career pages. Fursa is built to reduce noise, surface real opportunities, and reflect how modern job search works across regions, remote roles, and global markets.

Many of the ideas I explore in Bold Efforts come directly from building products like Fursa. Writing and building inform each other. One tests ideas in the real world. The other helps sharpen how those ideas are understood.